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Originally Posted by Pete F.
You keep claiming to have the simple answers,
Your lack of specificity leaves no basis for a reply.
WTF are you talking about?
meanwhile your party
It's not my party. It's the lesser (much lesser) of two evils.
had years to pass an alternative to “Obamacare”
Never did it
I don't want an alternative. I don't want the federal government mandating any form of health care. If the people want government health care it should be left to the individual states and their citizens to concoct it.
Had years to pas an infrastructure bill
Never did it
Party politics is a b*tch. I would like the federal government to pass a whole lot less bills. Passing bills is an area that I want the fed to get a lot less "done." If the need for a bill that the fed is constitutionally responsible for is really needed, ALL parties should get together and make it so.
Had years to change the status in the Middle East
Never did it
The status in the Middle East is ever changing and it is not the sole responsibility of American government to dictate the change. Several administrations of both parties claimed they had "solved" something there that they actually didn't. I assume by change there you mean make it better there for the US. I don't think that's doable until the people of the Middle East have a major change in their culture and religion. Unless you want us to go in there like the Communists and other dictatorial, authoritarian, despotic regimes have done throughout history and just destroy those countries and "nation build."
Governing isn’t attacking the other side.
Governing is getting #^&#^&#^&#^& done.
Depends on the type of government. Our constitutional system is geared to leaving most of the "getting things done" in the hands of the people first, their local and state governments responding to the people's will second, and a distant third to the federal government taking care of the very limited responsibilities given to it in the constitution.
Your authoritarian Progressive idea of government getting things done is the federal or some central government authority lording over the entire country and telling us what needs to "get done." And spending exorbitant amounts of money, and creating scads of regulatory agencies and thousands of bills to "get done" stuff whether the people want it or need it or could do it better at local levels. And getting the entire country constantly into greater unsustainable debt. And leaving less and less room, in the midst of this constant getting things done, for the people's expression of their once unalienable rights.
The Trumplicans or Christian Dominionists are not a governing party, because they’re all about power and it’s not that they're particularly religious really--they just want to use belief as a means to force a restrictive society in which they are on top and they can go after people they dislike.
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Actually, Christians and Theists never wanted to be an earthly, secular, governing party. They did want a society in which they were free to practice their religion and godly beliefs. That's one of the main reasons they created a governing document that made sacrosanct all the individual rights that they did not grant government power over.
PeteFicans see that as an impediment to competent and efficient government, and see centralized authoritarian government as the solution to whatever ails us--and "as a means to force a restrictive society in which they are on top and they can go after people they dislike"--and so much more. That is the efficient, competent, beauty of the Progressive way.
And what does all that nonsense have to do with your point in "You always seem confused about what you think the founders thought and where we are close to 250 years later.
As in what books, marriages, speech and religions are allowable?
Qualified immunity for police so they can be above the law?
Government control of corporate decisions as in Floriduh?
Political parties having control of government?"
I still don't see whatever point you were making with that unhinged cluster of words.